Casket-handle



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J. MQGARTHY.

GASKET HANDLE No. 495,226. Patented Apr. 11, 1893.

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No. 495,226. Patented Apr. 11, 1893.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN MCCARTHY, OF SYRACUSE, NEW YORK.

CASKET-HANDLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 495,226, dated April 11, 1893.

Application filed March 19, 1892- Serial No. 425,559. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

7 Be it known that I, JOHN MCCARTHY, of Syracuse, in the county of Onondaga, in the State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Casket-Handles, of which the following, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to the construction of handles for caskets or analogous receptacles, upon which it is desired to shut or fold the handles down out of the way when not in use, and which are provided with means for relieving the handle or the handle arm of a part of its strain or weight.

My object is to provide an improved handle adapted to be folded against the side of the casket, and provided with means for relieving the handle or the handle arm of a portion of its weight, and to that end my invention consists, first, in providing the handle arms with auxiliary supports; second, with means for engaging said supports with a sliding connection; third, means for concealing said auxiliary supports, and in the several other novel features of construction and operation hereinafter described and which are specifically set forth in the claims hereto annexed. It is constructed as follows, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1, is a side view of my improved handle, showing the auxiliary supports extended. Fig. 2, is a similar view showing the handle folded against the side of the case. Fig. 3, is a front view of the handle complete, mounted and provided with supports. Fig. 4, is a front view of one of the supports detached.

Fig. 5, is a view of one end of the handle,

showing a flexible support. Fig. 6, is a view of one of the flexible supports, detached. Fig. 7, is a side View showing the casing inclosing the supports. Figs. 8 and 9, are views of the plates provided with heads, which limit the sliding connection of the supports.

A, is the body plate to which arehinged or loosely secured the arms B in any ordinary way; or the pintle amay be mounted in an elongated slotway bfor the purpose of allowing the arm of the hand secured to the body or the body plate,

and having upon its outer end a head or lug eor other means to limit the upward movement of the supports.

I do not limit myself to this form of support, as it will be evident that many other forms of support may be used, which will perform the same functions and be limited in their sliding movement by any other mechanism.

The pin or bolt -d is provided with a plate or shoulder which fits up against the body of the casket for the purpose of pre venting the supports from marring, or otherwise disfiguring the body.

In Figs. 5 and 6 I show flexible supports, adapted to hang down close to the body, when the handle is folded.

In Fig. 7 I show the lower part of the easing D- detached from the upper part to which the handle arms are connected, and serving to inolose, cover or conceal the auxiliary supports.

It will be observed by mounting the pintle a in the elongated slotway .b in the plate A-, thereby allowing the handle arm to dropdown when the handle is folded down against the side of the casket, that I am enabled to use an auxiliary support with a shorter curve.

Having described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, 1s

1. The combination with a handle, the arms carrying it, and the body plate to which said arm isloosely secured, of a relief support connected at its upper end to said arm or handle, and engaging at its lower end with a pin having a head upon its outer end and a shoulder or plate sitting near or against the side of the casket, as set forth.

2. The combination With.ahandle, its arms and the body plate to which they are connected, of a longitudinally slotted relief suparm or handle and engaging at its lower end port connected to said arm or handle, and a with means for limiting its upward travel, stop inserted through said slot and secured when the handle is raised, and a casing inupon the casket, with which said support enclosing the relief support, as set forth.

5 gages when the handle is extended and upon In witness whereof I have hereunto set my I5 which it traverses when the handle is moved. hand this 15th day of March, 1892.

3. The combination with the handle and JOHN MCCARTHY. arms carrying it, and the body plate to which In presence ofsaid arms are loosely secured, of the relief HOWARD P. DENISON,

10 support connected at its upper end to said O. W.'SMITH. 

